Re: 2.2.16 vm fixes

From: Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 17:00:17 EST


On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> I suggest to try the patch I posted to the list (you can find it also
> here:

I like your patch in general, but there is one thing which may cause a
small problem.
What i'm concerned about is that -- in try_to_free_buffers -- we start
too many writes at the same time to sync dirty buffers, causing
stalls.

Anyway, i'll try this patch and report results tomorrow.

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